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Name That Thing Test your visual vocabulary with our question Early English translations of the Bible used thou and never you as the singular second-person pronoun, with the double effect of maintaining thou in usage and also imbuing it with an air of religious solemnity that is antithetical to its former sense of familiarity or disrespect.

The use of the pronoun was also common in poetry. Large Integer. He said not ' Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be dis-eased' but he said, ' Thou shalt not be overcome.

Let thy words between two foes be such that if they were to become friends thou shouldst not be ashamed. In seeking wisdom thou are wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it thou are a fool. First think, and if thy thou ghts approve thy will, Then speak, and after, what thou speak? But thou , O man of God, flee these things and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

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